Description
Brendan Fraser (The Whale) plays Philip, a lonely American actor in Tokyo. He starts working at a Japanese ‘rental family’ agency, where he has to play stand-in roles in the lives of strangers. When he has to play the dad of a little girl, everything changes. Through the different roles that Philip plays, we get drawn into a web of intriguing characters, leading to touching moments as well as comical situations. A heartwarming film by director Hikari (Beef), fresh from its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Length
103 min.Spoken language
English, JapaneseSubtitles
DutchDirector
HikariPremiere
National premiereActors
Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari YamamotoThis film plays on
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